Gruna () is a municipality and village in

Svitavy District Svitavy District () is a district in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Svitavy. Administrative division Svitavy District is divided into four administrative districts of municipalities with extended competenc ...

in the

Pardubice Region Pardubice Region () is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located mainly in the eastern part of its historical region of Bohemia, with a small part in northwestern Moravia. It is named after its capital Pardubice. As an administrat ...

of the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. It has about 300 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Gruna consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Gruna (176) *Žipotín (56)

Geography

Gruna is located about east of Svitavy and northwest of

Olomouc Olomouc (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants, making it the Statutory city (Czech Republic), sixth largest city in the country. It is the administrative centre of the Olomouc Region. Located on the Morava (rive ...

. It lies on the border between the Zábřeh Highlands and Orlické Foothills. The highest point is a nameless hill at above sea level. The Třebůvka River briefly crosses the municipal territory in the southwest. The brook Grunský potok originates here and then flows through the village into the Třebůvka.

History

The first written mention of Gruna and Žipotín is from 1365, when Gruna belonged to the Moravská Třebová estate and Žipotín to the Cimburk estate. From 1398 at the latest, Žipotín was also a part of the Moravská Třebová estate. For almost its entire history, Gruna was an agricultural village.

Demographics

Transport

The I/35 road (part of the European route E442) passes through the municipality. It replaces the unfinished section of the D35 motorway from

to the

Hradec Králové Region Hradec Králové Region (, ) is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic located in the north-eastern part of the historical region of Bohemia. It is named after its capital Hradec Králové. The region neighbours the Pardubice Region in t ...

Sights

Among the protected cultural monuments in the municipality are a rural homestead from the first half of the 19th century (an example of local folk architecture) and a locality with remains of a fortified market settlement called Radkov (today an archaeological site).

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* {{authority control Villages in Svitavy District